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Friday, August 10, 2012

Curiosity Rover, DIY Door Panels and Radial Wheels: Top Five Tweets

Our attention snapped into focus first thing Monday morning on the historic landing of NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity. We geeked out, sharing our excitement on the blog throughout the week while tweeting up fellow space geeks, NASA engineers, and even the now-famous "Mohawk Guy."

1. Curiosity's First Colored Panoramic Shot of Marsvia NASA: We eagerly awaited the first photos from the latest Mars rover earlier this week ... and she didn't disappoint! NASA researchers cobbled together this composite of a bunch of thumbnail-sized snapshots into a panoramic view of the martian landscape, rocks, shadows and details. Fascinating peek into another world. Can't wait to see more!

4. I Can't Help But Wonder About Curiosityon Industrial Equipment News: The Curiosity landing was historic for so many reasons — it gives us the clearest window to the Red Planet we've peered through so far, the technology is unprecedented, and its mission to find signs of life is edge-of-your-seat exciting. So why didn't the media and the public make a bigger deal of it? Good question ... We still think science is cool!

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